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The 2018 Faculty Research Awards recognize 20 scholars

UO researchers and scholars examining everything from Angkorian stoneware ceramics to Caribbean women healers to saxophone music have received Faculty Research Awards for 2018.

In all, 20 researchers in disciplines ranging from anthropology to cinema studies to product design received the awards, which are distributed annually by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation. Designed to stimulate promising research and scholarly activity, the awards support scholarship, creative projects and quantitative or qualitative research from all disciplinary backgrounds.

Awards went to researchers and scholars in ethnic studies, philosophy, creative writing, physics, psychology, special education and clinical sciences and other fields.

Faculty members receive up to $5,500 for research expenses during the coming fiscal year, including travel, equipment, supplies, contractual services, shared facility use, graduate or undergraduate student effort, or stipends during the summer months.

Award applications were open to all faculty members with a rank of assistant professor or above, as well as full-time, non-tenure-track faculty members engaged in substantial research. A committee of UO faculty members appointed by the University Senate provided peer review of the intellectual merit of the proposals and furnished their recommendations. The final award decisions were made by the vice president for research and innovation.

Idit Shner, associate professor, School of Music and Dance, “Recording of New Music for Saxophone.”

Stephanie Shire, assistant professor, Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, “Community Partnered Pilot Development of a Mobile Health Assessment for Caregivers of Young Children with Autism.”

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